Show HARD ROCK AT lAST STRUCK IN TUNNEL That the Bote i h Getting Into Solid Formation on West Portal Brings JO to In the Contractors Hard Bard rock has cit t last been struck at the west portal of the tunnel and o the work ork should proceed much more J In the future The rhe announcement announce announce- ment that hard rock had at 1 last St T. T reaChed brought joy to t 3 tunel tim tun- el commission And the contractor On the eat on t portal no soft rock has been enc encountered and the drilling machines have been able to to tomake make marked m progress so 80 that the water tunnel being in feet 2500 on the west and 2200 t feet et on the east there is a total of feet of the bore finished On the or or railroad tunnel all on the east feet o of It has been finished to full size and more than 1700 feet on the man heading Is completed On the west vest portal fifteen fi- fi teen feet of the main tunnel has been V com completed Work is being pushed on the two by and the prediction is ma made e that the tunnel will be In op- op in 1926 though the contract l calls for f r July 1927 In fact so con con- oare the contractors that they c will job in 1926 that they informed the engineering depart depart- meat that In drawing plans for or the entrance e to each portal tb t the year ear be used Instead ot of 1927 Tat There re are snore more than men mennow men mennow now now employed at t the two portals of the tunneL It must be understood hy the stranger that the water tunnel tun tun- nel Is being driven first as from It cross cuts are made seventy five feet V to the line of the railroad or main maint fun t n en w r J s form both ends of the cross cut All At the west portal work Is progressing progressing pro pro- gressing at five different places on the two cross cuts and from the face of time mountain while at the east ast portal with feet o of the main tunnel Work is carried on at tour four places or cr from two cross cuts Rock blasted in the water tunnel end and In the main tunnel Is carried out on om electric trains from both portals and is used t to build the rail rail- rood approach to the main tunnel In this way the approaches are being belag be- be lag ing constructed as the two tunnels are bored so that when completed d the approaches will be ready for the rai rails s. s Anticipating thousands or of pros pros- during the coming summer ummer season over Berthoud pass the contractors are planning the tho crocHon of a high wire to fence ce around the tunnel grounds The main highway over Berthoud pass is isby by the west portal and a portion of I the debris from rom the tunnel is carried d over the highway all on a trestle and dumped With thousands of motor tourist passing along the Ithe Berthoud pass roa s 's it Is seen the they would swarm the tunnels and over the tho gr ground honce I nCe the fence to keep them out This a it b by Hitchcock Tink- Tink ter Jer Is not to bar the public from Tom the working but as a a. preventive teas teas- tire uro against death or accident it was explained b by one of the tunnell engineers There Is of co course a avast i vast ast amount of high explosive at atthe J the earn camp I but more dangerous are the low trolley wires c of high voltage some of those these wires being only about six mx feet teet from rom the ground The fence is to to keep crowds out but thore will be Passes Issued and In fn this wa way the tho number around the tunnel portals can be regulated i and lives can be safeguarded As a matter of fact act the tourist cm can see from the outside about all that Is o of interest but from the tho outside naturally he cannot go hack back home V and say I 1 was In the Moffat tunnel and tell hla own story or of Its into into- I riM Tho be e a t o hue construction or of orI I t tunnel is 18 already already beIng Lett throughout the northwestern part of the state and the tunnel in incon con connection with the discovery cry of is t giving that pMt part of o Colorado areal a real 1001 boom The tunnel means a at that will wUl t tr co railroad cross that thal district means easy and sapid rapid transportation to Denver and to the east and also to the Pacific On Last Page |